As 1328 französchische last king, he did not know what to break out a power struggle would ... was after the Salic law of succession now Philip VI. , turn to take control of one of Europe's great powers.
But that was not so easy. Because of his ancestry Edward III raised. , the English king claims to the kingdom, was because his mother was the sister of the French monarch.
broke out, the longest war of the Middle Ages.
England had gone many possessions in France, a large part, however, was lost in the last century.
When Philip the possessions of France in the English occupied, the war broke out for good.
In 1340, Edward was in England.
Erf ührte except the "usual" or 8000 Welsh longbow archers with the first battle in the very best.
get the French cavalry and infantry were cut down by several dozen thousand arrows.
After eleven months of siege could take the English and Calais, which had to capitulate.
accepted 15 years later, Edward's son, also called "Black Prince", mean the successor of Philip, John II near Poitiers trapped in her second major victory.
was in 1360 finished the first war by the Peace of Brétigny.
Edward renounced the possessions in France and takes for a high ransom and a few areas in France.
began, however, by 1369 under the French ski's King Charles V, the Wise the acts are fighting again.
He recaptured many possessions in France from England and defeated with the help of the Castilians from what is now Spain, the English fleet at La Rochelle.
made by Jean Fouquet image. It shows Karl, the French ski's King.
died in 1376 English Trhonfolger Edward of Woodstock, and next year his father, which ended the hostilities of the English for a while.
Both sides signed a peace treaty that gave them a 28-year break.
However, the peace did not last forever ...
moved 1413 of the throne of its owner. Henry V then took over England, and raised as his predecessor, claim to the French throne.
The fighting began again ...
He decided to reclaim the Normandy, but forced into the French army to a standstill and he went back, but eventually it did come to the battle of Agincourt.
There were the 6000 British, of which 5000 archers, 11,000 infantry and 12,000 cavalry and 4,000 crossbow and archery meet.
rushed the arrogant French rider immediately in the battle ... and got stuck in the mud because the ground was soaked from the rain.
now they could easily be defeated by the British. The shaft ended in spite of the superiority of France after a panic with the victory of the English.
5000 nobles and knights of France had fallen. The English had only 100 men lost.
Many other victories have been won by the English.
Finally came the English Expansion to a halt. Led by a peasant girl, Joan of Arc beat the French back to English.
The French ski king betrayed, and ended at the stake. That's what I call gratitude ...
lost in the last phase of the war the British.
The most important adviser of the English king was banished by the Parliament and the mischief could not turn away.
1815 neglischen still the monarch called on documents kings of France, in 1920, finally ended that.
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